Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-03
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The trial OF Jacob Sharp has been IN
some respects the most notable that mas
ever been held in New York. In the
rear OF the old City Hall, which begins
iolook worn and weather-beaten, stands
the white stone courthouse, divided
into many rooms for the several courts.
An old applc-woman and vendor OF
coffee and lemonade ply their trade In
Tie rotunda. A room, not over sixty
| feet square. on the second floor OF the
building is designated by small black
and gold-sign as the Court OF Oyer and
Terinincr, old Norman Latin words
which mean "to hear and determine"
Across its entrance q heavy pole, upon
which leans large court attendant,
obstructs the way. 4 great crowd clamor
! for admittance at all important trials,
bat the attendant admits only a limited
number into the small, stuffy court
room. When he deigns to admit
person NE raises the pole little way
and the person stOops down and glldes
under the obstruction. The room, with
! IFS black walnut wainscOting and high
canopy under which the Judge sits,
loofs cramped and stuffy. Its most
conspicuous feature is big thermome-
ter on the western wall. 1t is one of
the many thermometers for which the
Tweed ring made the City of New
York pay 5000 apiece. 1t is worth
aDout $40 The whole courthouse is
stocked with relics of the Tweed days.
When the hour for converting the court
arrives a court attendant hammers on
the black walnut waiDscoting with his
fist. Another court officer catches his
che and pounds the wainscoting ON
his side of the room. They are an
nouncing that the Judge is coming.
JUDGE BARRETT
who has written play and made him
self famous in the Doodle trials, is
man of medium stature with full
black beard, highly arched eyebrows,
and the face of man OF temperate
habits, comes into court with rapid
stride. The clerks and attendants rise
and remain standing until he is seated,
and then he bows 20 the counsel on
both sides, after which the court-crier,
who never varies the intonation OF his
voice. requests every one having bust
ness with the Court of Oyer and Ter
miner to draw near and be heard. The
strict formalities Of the court are never
varied, and at the adjournment OF the
court every one is expected to remain
seated until the jury has withdrawn.
One of the Sharp jurymen became so
far imbued with sense Of the etiquette
Of the couit that one evening at adj
jouinment, when the audience arose to
go out before the jury had departed,
the juyman sternly raped on the end
of the box as n signal for the people to
remain seated until the jury were gone.
HEAVY EXPENSE.
Six expensive lawyers have during
the five weeks and more of the trial S tt
M a table about their client. The az
ercgate daily expense to the defendant
Of all this array of legal talent has
averaged $500 per day to say nothing
Of rctaincr.fees, which averaged from
5000 to $40, 1850. Besides this was the
expense cntailed for agents and private
detectives in the interest OF MIR. Sharp.
Added 90 this was the cost of employ
ing stonographers by the defendant,
who has had IN his service one of the
most expert shorthand-wrters in the
United States, short. thick-set man,
WHO has taken the Is, 600 words OF evil
dence "A day with apparently less exer-
ton than anybody employed in the
case. The courts stenographer, who
is said to have no superior IN America,
las been reporting trials i'll the same
tribunal for more than twenty years.
He wrote the record of the Tweed trial,
and treasures among his relics
friendly communication recorded from
Tweed during the progress OF the trial.
hese stenographers have taken daily
note which it would have required one
man. twenty-five hours to write out IN
Icing hand. After the adjournment OF
court they have taken hurried lun-
cheon and FASTENED to their offices.
| They have dictated their notes for
aLout two hours to other stenographers
for more deliberate transcription, and
the remainder Of the days record has
teen dictated TO expert lady type
writer's. 1t has taken until 2 or 3
/ o'clock in the morning to finish the
work, and the stenographer has
teon obliged to be in court at $3.50
o'clock. None but man in1red to
this kind of work could have endured
this strain for more than five weeks,
even at the liberal compensation of S.
Der hour which Sharp is said to have
and his private stenographer. The ag-
crogate expense of his trial to the de-
/ .,uCant has been more than $50, 900.
A CHARACTER IN TIE TRIAL.
The most striking character OF the
farce for the defence is the veteran
judge Fullerton, famous from bis con
ncctlon with the Beecher and Tweed
trials. he wears his moustsche short
cropped, his rather full face is slightly
flushed, and his keen gray eyes CLINT
through pair of old-fashioned spec
tacles as he gazos at his opponent with
stern lock. The defendant himself
has prC scented u spectacle OF the most
abitct woe ever seen IN New YORK
courtroom. When the case had as
sumed It's darkest prospect his wonder
ful wiil-power that had enabled him to
keep up during previous vicissitudes
began to give way. He has long
cecn victim OF kidney trouble,
and when he began to succumb to the
strain OF the trial his flabby, rather
full face assumed an almost purple
cast, his ray-whiskered chin dropped
down, leaving his mouth open and
giving his face a CHASTITY appearance;
his eyes at times closed drearlly and
his head dropped on his hand IN AN at
titudo of detection. Occasionally he
would start up with startled look and
his little gray eyes would wander 10
the iury-book with look Of anxious IN
oulry. At every moment during the long
trial Sharp's grandson, a mere youth,
with a handsome face, has sat at bis
erandsIre's elbow: The patient and
constant devotion of this lad has been
one of the features of the great trial,
and the keen contempt with which he
has eyed the three big deputy sheriff,
who have continually sat close about
Mr.. sharpto see that he did not follow
the example of Tweed and escape. MIR.
sharp, vino, by the way, is a member
of the Blossom Club, to which Tweed
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